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for show
Idioms and Phrases
For the sake of appearances or display. For example, They put on a lavish buffet, mainly for show , or The police pretended to jail the informer, for show . [c. 1700]Example Sentences
While some of the rhetoric is “just for show,” Neumann added, Trump and his allies are also laying the groundwork for the “next version of ‘Stop the Steal.’”
News releases touting cross-border law enforcement collaboration, she said, were mostly for show.
When Bobby Locke coined his immortal phrase 'drive for show, putt for dough', it was just another flag the great South African planted in the story of golf.
The antennae sprouting from ants’ heads aren’t just for show.
The ship’s captain, Vukota Stojanovic, later insisted that none of it was for show.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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